Philadelphia, though a major metropolitan city, is composed of small neighborhoods that make for
a warm, welcoming town.

It is the perfect city for "very good walkers," as founder William Penn
laid out the streets in a most rational manner – naming streets that
form square blocks using numbers and the names of trees. It is possible, but
difficult, to become lost while walking in our fair city.

What connects Philadelphia to Jane Austen besides the 2009 AGM? Emma was published here in 1816;
the first North American city where an Austen novel was published during the author's lifetime.
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